Project Gutenberg's Songs from Vagabondia, by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Songs from Vagabondia

Author: Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

Release Date: April 23, 2006 [EBook #18238]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA ***

Produced by Thierry Alberto, Robert Ledger and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions
(www.canadiana.org))

SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA

BLISS CARMAN
RICHARD HOVEY

DESIGNS BY
TOM B METEYARD

BOSTON COPELAND AND DAY
LONDON
ELKIN MATHEWS AND JOHN LANE

MDCCCXCIV

_Copyright, 1894._
BY BLISS CARMAN AND RICHARD HOVEY.

_To H.F.W., for debts of love unpaid,
Her boys inscribe this book that they have made._

CONTENTS.

VAGABONDIA
A WAIF
THE JOYS OF THE ROAD
EVENING ON THE POTOMAC
SPRING SONG
THE FAUN
A ROVER'S SONG
DOWN THE SONGO
THE WANDER-LOVERS
DISCOVERY
A MORE ANCIENT MARINER
A SONG BY THE SHORE
A HILL SONG
AT SEA
ISABEL
CONTEMPORARIES
THE TWO BOBBIES
A TOAST
THE KAVANAGH
A CAPTAIN OF THE PRESS-GANG
THE BUCCANEERS
THE WAR-SONG OF GAMELBAR
THE OUTLAW
THE KING'S SON
LAURANA'S SONG
LAUNA DEE
THE MENDICANTS
THE MARCHING MORROWS
IN THE WORKSHOP
THE MOTE
IN THE HOUSE OF IDIEDAILY
RESIGNATION
COMRADES

VAGABONDIA.

Off with the fetters
That chafe and restrain!
Off with the chain!
Here Art and Letters,
Music and wine,
And Myrtle and Wanda,
The winsome witches,
Blithely combine.
Here are true riches,
Here is Golconda,
Here are the Indies,
Here we are free--
Free as the wind is,
Free, as the sea.
Free!

Houp-la!

What have we
To do with the way
Of the Pharisee?
We go or we stay
At our own sweet will;
We think as we say,
And we say or keep still
At our own sweet will,
At our own sweet will.

Here we are free
To be good or bad,
Sane or mad,
Merry or grim
As the mood may be,--
Free as the whim
Of a spook on a spree,--
Free to be oddities,
Not mere commodities,
Stupid and salable,
Wholly available,
Ranged upon shelves;
Each w